CARD TO CULTURE
La Donna Musicale believes that the arts should be accessible to everyone!
That’s why we are proud to partner with the Mass Cultural Council – in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector to offer – the Card to Culture program. It is the most comprehensive effort of its kind in the nation to open doors to arts and culture experiences for low-income families.
CARD TO CULTURE
La Donna Musicale believes that the arts should be accessible to everyone!
That’s why we are proud to partner with the Mass Cultural Council – in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector to offer – the Card to Culture program. It is the most comprehensive effort of its kind in the nation to open doors to arts and culture experiences for low-income families.
Past Concerts
Women Classical Composers
This program presents music by Italian 18th century women composers working at the courts of Frederick the Great in Prussia and the House of Habsburg in Austria. These powerful monarchies sponsored both salon and stage, where passions ran high and the best musicians were hired.
Fandango and Other Dances 2025
This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present.
Silkroad
Silkroad presents Train Station Trio, a series generating new music as part of Silkroad’s multi-year American Railroad project, an initiative led by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens that illuminates the impact the African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America.
Fandango and Other Dances 2024
This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present.
Arlington Day
Rumbarroco will be performing a blend of music from cultures representing the inherent multiculturalism.
Love & Libations
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive secular contributions of women composers from Paris to the French Baroque and Rococo genres of airs sérieux and airs à boire (serious and drinking songs).
More and More Morenas
La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco continue a musical exploration that extends from the Iberian Renaissance to Indigenous and African-influenced folk traditions in contemporary South America.
Dancing Bridges
In these concerts, Rumbarroco focuses on the intercultural fusion between musical traditions, including early European music of the Renaissance and Baroque and its confluence with African, Amerindian, and Latin-American genres.
Latin-Baroque Celebration
Let’s celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month at the Arlington Town Day. Rumbarroco will be performing a blend of music from cultures representing the inherent multiculturalism of Latin America.
Nigra sum sed formosa: Morenas in Ibero-America
Making their BEMF début, La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco perform songs and polyphonic settings that highlight “Morenas”—dark-skinned women—in the Ibero-American repertory.
O Maria! Mother and Warrior
La Donna Musicale presents a concert of Italian Baroque women composers.
For Venezuela
RUMBARROCO and the Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts invite you to celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day and Simon Bolivar’s birthday with music, Venezuelan treats, and the continuation of our humanitarian & educational campaign for Venezuela.
Thanks to the fundraising concert by Rumbarroco and La Donna Musicale in 2023.
Rumbarroco - Latin Baroque Musical Fusion
Rumbarroco is a multicultural fusion ensemble that draws from early Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American sources and connects them with contemporary popular and folk music of the Americas.
Outreach
Rumbarroco Outreach at Booker T Washington High School For the Performing Arts Sponsored by Orchestra of New Spain, Grover Wilkins 3d
Cross-Pollination and Transmutation
Music Outside the Court: Corpus Christi and Black Villancicos
